I don't know this for sure, but judging by the way Jimmy Haslam III carries himself, and the fact his brother is governor of Tennessee, and the fact his father is so influential in University of Tennessee athletics with million dollar donations, I'm going to take a wild guess and say the Haslam clan usually gets what it wants.

Things work differently in the NFL, Haslam is learning quickly. There is a parallel here to why so many college coaches fail when they leave the sanctuary of their school.

Once they get to the NFL, it doesn't matter how many BCS or conference championships a coach won in college. Likewise, trying to convince a coach to work for the Browns isn't the same as convincing a city council a Pilot Flying J truck stop would be good for the neighborhood.

So where does Haslam go from here after failing to lure Chip Kelly from Oregon or Doug Marrone from Syracuse? Not Alabama, it seems. Alabama coach Nick Saban, one day after winning another BCS championship, made it crystal clear he has no plans to try the NFL again. He did that once and was 15-17 with the Miami Dolphins. When the job at Alabama opened up in 2007 he couldn't leave South Florida fast enough to return to college.

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"I think, you know, somewhere along the line you've got to choose," Saban said during a press conference Tuesday. "You learn a lot from the experiences of what you've done in the past. I came to the Miami Dolphins, what, eight years ago, for the best owner, the best person, that I've ever had the opportunity to work for (Wayne Huizenga). And in the two years that I was here, had a very, very difficult time thinking that I could impact the organization in the way that I wanted to or the way that I was able to in college, and it was very difficult for me.

"So I kind of learned through that experience that maybe this is where I belong, and I'm really happy and at peace with all of that. So, no matter how many times I say that, y'all don't believe me. So I don't know why I even keep talking about it."

Saban is an excellent coach, but how difficult could it be to recruit any player he wants to play at Alabama?

"Son, we have something good going on here and we think you could help us win another championship," he says. Then he shows the next Trent Richardson his rings.

I believe Haslam and CEO Joe Banner would be much better off going after a head coach with proven success in the NFL. My choices in order would be Lovie Smith, Ken Whisenhunt and Marc Trestman.

Smith was 76-58 in nine years with the Bears and took them to one Super Bowl. His team won 10 games in 2012 -- and he was fired anyway. Had he done that in Cleveland he would have received a five-year contract extension.

Smith's players loved playing for him. Wide receiver/kick returner Devin Hester said he might retire rather than play for another coach.

Smith as head coach with fired Chargers head coach Norv Turner as offensive coordinator and Dick Jauron as defensive coordinator seems like a winning combination to me.

Whisenhunt took a long path to earn his spurs as head coach of the Arizona Cardinals. He was the Browns' special teams coach in 1999, the Jets special teams coach in 2000, the Steelers tight ends coach from 2001-2003 and the Steelers offensive coordinator for three years before being named Cardinals head coach in 2007.

Whisenhunt was 41-45 with the Cardinals. He took his team to the Super Bowl in 2008 and lost to the Steelers. The Cardinals were 10-6 in 2009, but then quarterback Kurt Warner retired and it was all downhill from there.

Arizona's offensive line was awful in 2012. They gave up 58 sacks. That was more the fault of the man who put the team together, general manager Rod Graves, who also was fired. The Cardinals started 4-0 and won just one of their last 12 games. Because of injuries suffered behind that pathetic line, Whisenhunt had to start four different quarterbacks.

Trestman was never a head coach in the NFL, but he has plenty of NFL experience as an assistant and he has been the head coach of the Montreal Alouettes since 2008. His teams won two Grey Cups, the CFL's version of the Super Bowl.

Trestman has worked with numerous NFL quarterbacks, including the Browns' Brandon Weeden. He would use an offense that plays to Weeden's strength, unlike the version of the West Coast offense the Browns used last season and in 2011. Jauron would be a perfect fit as defensive coordinator.